usb: storage: sierra_ms: reject short SWoC info transfers (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-98771
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: storage: sierra_ms: reject short SWoC info transfers sierra_get_swoc_info() requests sizeof(struct swoc_info) (60) bytes from the device via usb_control_msg(), but its callers only treat a negative return value as failure. A device that answers the vendor-specific GetSwocInfo request with a short IN transfer is therefore accepted, leaving the tail of the freshly allocated (kmalloc(), non-zeroing) swoc_info buffer uninitialized. truinst_show() subsequently prints swocInfo->rev, swocInfo->LinuxSKU and swocInfo->LinuxVer from that buffer into the world-readable (0444) "truinst" sysfs attribute. An emulated/malicious USB device (VID 0x1199, PID 0x0fff) can exploit this to disclose up to 5 bytes of stale kernel heap memory (kmalloc-64) to unprivileged userspace, once per sysfs read, indefinitely. On kernels built without init_on_alloc this leaks recently freed heap contents. Only accept the transfer when the full structure was received. sierra_ms_init() already retries failed queries, so well-behaved devices are unaffected.

References

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 32fe5e393455d87db4988af03915634304870fb4 < 353ca2623104a3baf5642c3ea31569df04ce4aaf ; affected 32fe5e393455d87db4988af03915634304870fb4 < 799810166646bcf9dc5a4e77bc4b0bdf6bc443f2 ; affected 32fe5e393455d87db4988af03915634304870fb4 < 411da2ec8c62bfa39407e5a20d659b973b3cf311 ; affected 32fe5e393455d87db4988af03915634304870fb4 < 4faaad69f18332246bbd4ca41718beb2a305bb72 ; affected 32fe5e393455d87db4988af03915634304870fb4 < c85e8331d298b8f1dee8fe63718e76435cec7133 ; affected 32fe5e393455d87db4988af03915634304870fb4 < e2d62928f2666a2964a23b1d39e6e762f0628d7b
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.27 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.27 ; unaffected 5.10.273 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.224 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD